Keeping the memories alive…
General blather about my daily life
After a lovely drive up the coast, we arrived in Staithes just after 2pm. Cottage check in was 3pm but we chanced our arm and found it ready. After unloading our stuff, we had to move the car back to the top of the village to our pre-booked parking space as there is no public parking in the old village. On first impression, Coble Cottage was charming and right on the harbour. After parking the …
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Back in January when I got an email from Haven holidays with their offers for short breaks, we were in the middle of another lockdown and thoroughly fed up. The prospect of our annual Flamborough trip was a welcome one so I booked a 4 night stay at a bargain price with the promise of restrictions to start to ease in April. So, here we are in Flamborough. Having driven from home on Monday afternoon, …
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The weather was so lovely today so we decided to go into town to have a look at Hull’s newest bridge, Murdoch’s Connection. Crossing the main dual carriageway in and out of Hull, it has been much needed to link the retail and leisure businesses of the marina and Humber Street on the south of Castle Street to those of the main part of the city centre. We parked on the east side of the …
Read moreAfter a really restless night I was lying in bed just waiting until it was a reasonable time to get up. By 7am I was up and dressed. The morning was beautiful, cold but sunny and bright so I decided to go for a walk. My usual walk down the drain. There were a couple of dog walkers that were out and about but it was otherwise very quiet. The robins are singing to claim …
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Here we are almost at the end of another year and I’m not going to apologise for not blogging regularly or make any promises to do so next year because I know that it won’t happen! I start with good intentions, just a little blog each week to sum up the happenings of the week, it really wouldn’t take long but I just don’t do it. So, it’s my blog and I’ll blog when I …
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